Patsy Stoneman

Wuthering Heights Published in 1847 - Author Emily Bronte died in 1848 -- believing that her only novel was a failure, Not until 1850 recognized ... Today, widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.
After reading it again to help my friends son finish high-school, did it became one of my favorite books. It's emotionally, psychologically complexity of Heathcliff obsessed - obsession led to a hardness and a madness of mind and morals. Like so many -- by their own EGO -- This man rude, and as proud and cruel with Greed is Loved and even recognizes as Catherines soul-mate. The desire to see his plan executes to the end, regardless of the cost to others, or to himself. Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who is reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. This is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond -- because of ego.… (más)

This book really crystallised for me a lot of the reasons why I have instinctively loved Elizabeth Wharton. It also explains why she has not been as lionised as other writers. I'll definitely be tracking down a few more of her books (I've read North and South and Mary Barton). Wish I'd got it together to read Cranston before the new TV series starts, but I'll watch it anyway. I incidentally learned a lot about the industrial revolution and aspects of social, women's and feminist history in England through reading this. It is a bit dry, I presume it's the author's PhD thesis edited for publication or something.… (más)